By Nel PreTech
Computed tomography CT scanning is an X-ray based technology that scans your part, creates a digital representation of that, but has the advantage of not being limited by line of sight. So we can see internal to the material. We can see assembly engagements, things that are hidden from the eye. And we can perform a whole host of post scan services which include basic metrology, material analysis, defect porosity. We can overlay the digitized version of your part onto another part or to CAD model and get a visual idea of how your part is performing or how close it is to nominal. And so the benefits to you in acquiring full digitized scan data is that you're going to be able to visualize the condition of the part, you're going to be able to make decisions much faster. That information can be disseminated out to everyone in the organization, so they can all be looking at it concurrently from their own job perspectives. That's a huge advantage in the digital world. We can take measurements on the fly, We can make changes on the fly. It executes much faster. Any measurement routine that we have will typically execute in seconds, not hours or days like a traditional measurement equipment would. Computer tomography or CT, it's been used in the medical industry for decades at this point and it's starting to come over to the industrial side. It's an X-ray based technology. And the kind of the key thing is it's going to be non destructive as well as providing full 3D images of both internal and external features.
